The Best Worst Case Scenario
by Amy Chu
The time has come for us to reimagine everything. We have to reimagine work and go away from labor. We have to reimagine revolution and get beyond protest. We have to think not only about change in our institutions, but changes in ourselves. We are at the stage where the people in charge of the government and industry are running around like chickens with their heads cut off. It’s up to us to reimagine the alternatives.
—Grace Lee Boggs in 2012, on the next American revolution
Try to imagine the worst case scenario and ask yourself how possible that really is.
—My therapist, on my generalized anxiety disorder
The worst-case scenario
Our country devolves into authoritarianism and states become districts that are mined for resources to benefit the wealthy elite. Violence is broadcast on live television for entertainment.
The best worst-case scenario
I become enmeshed in a love triangle because it’s somehow easier to meet not one but two politically like-minded men on a dystopian reality show than on a dating app. My side braid always looks good.
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